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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 13h

For this week's #HomeMadeMusic, I've never even tenuously written a song about the weather, so I'll cheat and share this ultra-lo-fi Japanese language cover of Brian Eno (and Cluster)'s By This River — which I always read as a couple sheltering from the rain under a tree. youtu.be/UB9iXSAGcWY?...

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Minitron - By This River

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 15h

I may have accidentally inspired my friend to start writing blasphemous and pornographic fan fiction about the Vatican anime mascot Luce.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 23h

Buzzcocksがいかに完璧なパンク・バンドであったか（その他諸々）を論じた私のコラムが、『ele-king』のパンク特集に掲載されています。 ele-king.net/books/012370/

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別冊ele-king　パンク50周年記念号──それは何だったのか、何でありえるのか | ele-king

別冊ele-king　パンク50周年記念号──それは何だったのか、何でありえるのか

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OK, I concede, the new Protomartyr album is really good.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#ClocktoberMusic DAY 3 Futures and Pasts - The Fall The past sucked, and so does the future. youtu.be/IfmlkJClI3o?...

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Futures and Pasts

YouTube video by The Fall - Topic

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ba...bylon... Zoo, Zoo, Zoo! Microdisney, Michael Ball, Vengaboys, The Fall, Peter Andre, Amon Düül!

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Call And Response Records @callandresponse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Our last Kyushu music #BandcampFriday post is this compilation. Initially a pandemic fundraiser for our favourite Fukuoka venue, it features nearly all the Kyushu acts we've worked with and it's still interesting as one label's window on a region's music. call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/883km

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883km, by Various Artists

14 track album

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Call And Response Records @callandresponse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another Kyushu band we put out was Hakuchi, from Saga. Absolutely demented band. The drummer is now a fitness influencer or something but the bassist is still doing some cool stuff when he’s not busy being a dad and stuff. call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/ding-d...

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チンドンDING DONG! ～みのくるいマーチ～ / Chindon Ding Dong! Minokurui March, by 白痴 / Hakuchi

12 track album

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Call And Response Records @callandresponse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For all these links I’m posting today, DM us if the physical version isn’t listed. We have them but we’re just lazy!

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Call And Response Records @callandresponse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Next #BandcampFriday link from our archives, looking at Kyushu artists is Zibanchinka’s album Hatsubai Chushi. They should’ve been huge but imploded before the initial buzz could stick. Disarmingly intelligent garage-punk from Kagoshima that hits HARD: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/hatsub...

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発売中止 / Hatsubai Chūshi, by 地盤沈下 / Zibanchinka

15 track album

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Family Mart on the corner of Koshu-kaido and Yamate-dori in Hatsudai is disarmingly spacious.

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Call And Response Records @callandresponse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hyacca were (along with Mir) the band who really got Call And Response Records motivated in the early days. Their second release from us, Hanazono, is a series of tighter, more refined detonation as than the first, but if anything more devastating. #BandcampFriday hyacca.bandcamp.com/album/hanazono

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花園 / Hanazono, by 百蚊 / Hyacca

8 track album

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Call And Response Records @callandresponse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Since we're off to Fukuoka and Kumamoto for a while next week, this #BandcampFriday we're going to celebrate just a few of the great releases from the wonderful island of Kyushu that we've put out. Here's the album Sashitai by the incredible Hyacca (from Fukuoka): hyacca.bandcamp.com/album/sashitai

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刺したい / Sashitai, by 百蚊 / Hyacca

7 track album

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#ClocktoberMusic DAY 2 Future - Cut Copy Future as a space filled with memories of the past. youtu.be/zNXP81iwfBs?...

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Cut Copy Future Bright Like Neon Love

YouTube video by Rj ism

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Really looking forward to this. I read Ian's first book Quit Your Band (Musical Notes From the Japanese Underground) earlier this year & it was the exact kind of thoughtful insight into a unique music subculture that hooks me. Genuine interest in & passion for underground music shines throughout.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Right, except Sanae Takaichi's government doesn't want to send all foreigners home: they want to keep us as a permanent underclass with no civil rights, who can be exploited, kicked publicly for social media likes and then deported before we claim the benefits we've been paying into with our labour.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#ClocktoberMusic DAY 1 For my own pleasure, I decided to structure this challenge as a concept album, so think of this Michael Moorcock-penned screed as the opening track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPZS...

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Standing at the Edge

YouTube video by Hawkwind - Topic

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And stoked to finally have a physical copy of the damn thing in my hands.

The book “Tokyo Doesn’t Exist - Not a guide to music or cycling in Japan” by me, Ian F Martin. The cover has a sort of tasteful but energetic, abstract swirl on it.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just did my first (and so far only scheduled) interview for my upcoming book and had lots of fun. If any more of you media/pod/zine types want to hear me blab enthusiastically about Japanese indie music culture, contact me or Awai Books and we'd love to sort something: awaimedia.com/Tokyo_Doesnt...

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Awai Books | Tokyo Doesn't Exist

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Got a chance to DJ on the back of a truck at one of my neighbourhood’s anti-gentrification marches on Sunday, so brought the white boy funk and annoyed the neighbours for a while.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watched the first episode of Widow’s Bay and it’s been a long time since I’ve hated a TV show so definitively right from the start.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just got this email and I really do love my mum! "When I drove home from Sodding Buggery through Wick and Oldland Common, we noticed those far right flags had been removed - Thank goodness! XX Mum" (Sodding Buggery is what my mum calls Chipping Sodbury)

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been getting caught up in a lot of 90s themed stuff lately and one thing that's really stood out for me after immersing myself in the music of that era is that by far the best (and most consistently terrific) band to come out of Britpop and all its parallel scenes was Super Furry Animals.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My #HomeMadeMusic this week on the theme of "an end" is really a song about someone trying to end something but being unable to do so for long, and on some level already knowing that even before they leave. soundcloud.com/rizladeutsch...

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Master of Ants - (Sooper-Beta)

Side-project of one half of Rizla Deutsch!, composed of demos recorded summer-autumn 2017.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finally a constructive use for AI (a Sailor Moon transformation animation app that everyone in Japan is currently using on their pets).

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The wife has just discovered the theme song to Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds and of course it now won't leave her alone. Of course I'm now playing this at her at full blast: youtu.be/5GlEf-u6j94?...

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It's A Kid's World

YouTube video by Disco Inferno - Topic

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Call And Response Records @callandresponse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NOW FOR SALE IN JAPAN! New at our permanent pop up at Tokyo, Koenji Substore: ・Library Music Volume Two - The Leaf Library ・After The Rain, Strange Seeds - The Lead Library ・A Short Survey Of Annotated Musical Equipment - Matt Ashton ・Dream Archipelgo: A Forecast For Imaginary Islands - Matt Ashton

The Leaf Library’s album “Library Music Volume Two” being held up in front of the Call And Response Records permanent pop-up store at Koenji Substore in Tokyo.

The Leaf Library’s album “After The Tain, Strange Seeds” being held up in front of the Call And Response Records permanent pop-up store at Koenji Substore in Tokyo.

Matt Ashton’s zines “A Short Survey Of Annotated Musical Equipment” and “Dream Archipelgo - A Forecast For Imaginary Islands” on display in the Call And Response Records permanent pop-up store at Koenji Substore in Tokyo. Next to them are a few copies of our own “Last Year’s Sounds” zines of reviews of local Japanese underground releases.

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The Leaf Library @theleaflibrary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

8/10 in @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social "If Volume One mapped The Leaf Library through their margins, Volume Two shows that they live just as contentedly in those margins..." Thanks @trevelkin.bsky.social!

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The Leaf Library @theleaflibrary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OUT TODAY! ＬｉｂｒａｒｙＭｕｓｉｃ：ＶｏｌｕｍｅＴｗｏ wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/librar... A second run through some of our rarities, compilation tracks and collaborations, lovingly assembled with the help of @wiaiwya.bsky.social and released on 2xLP/DL. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did putting it together.

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Library Music: Volume Two, by The Leaf Library

13 track album

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

DJing a 90s night tomorrow and turning my whole house over in search of the loose CD copy of Barafundle by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci that I absolutely know is in here somewhere.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Woke up this morning to find the wife listening to Coltrane downstairs instead of the usual shouty Japanese breakfast radio. We need more jazz anniversaries.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am a medieval warrior. I get through a dozen swords a week and spend half my questing time crafting new ones. My neighbour, a farmer, spends more time crafting hoes than he does actual hoeing. I guess it's just an unavoidable fact of nature that metal tools break after only a few uses.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#BrownAlbums Day 10: Harmonia - Deluxe Sentimental meditational heart surge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcmO...

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Harmonia - Deluxe - Deluxe

YouTube video by groenlandrecords

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Media paywalls are great because they stop me carelessly reading things I know are going to make me mad.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#BrownAlbums Day 9: Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night You have to admit they're good at what they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6vf...

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Strobo Acceleration

YouTube video by Stereolab - Topic

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Is The Number One Song In Heaven by Sparks still the No.1 song in Heaven? Because incredible achievement for the Mael brothers if so.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#BrownAlbums Day 8: Beak> - >>> Weston-Super-Mare is a shit beach there I said it. But Brean Down is a nice walk (and a good song). youtu.be/XCO84IFZ2zo?...

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Beak〉 - Brean Down

YouTube video by Temporary Residence Ltd

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Odyssey is finally out in Japan and it was a decent big Hollywood action adventure film that was also overwhelmingly anxious that the audience know exactly what emotions and message they need to be taking from it at all times.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just watched Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? and it was very good. The critics are wrong.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#BrownAlbums Day 7: The Flashing Lights - Where The Change Is One of Canada’s finest. Two terrific albums and done as far as I can tell (though Murphy reformed The Super Friendz after) All together now: “Flashing Lights, Flashing Lights! Flashing Lights, FLASHING LIGHTS!!!” youtu.be/CAVqb1VGr3M?...

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Elevature

YouTube video by The Flashing Lights - Topic

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“The report on the new car park decorations is a mixed bag. Customers report feelings of nausea and confusion, but on the other hand shootings by German naval gunners are down 16% on last year.”

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Love how Time Out, in describing why my neighbourhood is the 8th coolest in the world, spend the whole piece talking about the anti-gentrification protest movement here. Like, “Go to Koenji: no one there wants you!”

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#BrownAlbums Day 6: Brainiac - Electro-Shock For President Important contribution to lost futures discourse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iIp...

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Fresh New Eyes

YouTube video by Brainiac - Topic

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For today’s #HomeMadeMusic on the theme of “an event” the closest I could get was this. Conceived not exactly as a song so much as the walking-onstage music for a fictional singer called Eduardo Kïss (and his band, known as “His Guy Outfit”) at live events: rizladeutsch.bandcamp.com/track/introd...

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(Introducing...) Eduardo Kïss & His Guy Outfit, by RIZLA DEUTSCH!

from the album Fragment Rock

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#BrownAlbums Day 5: Convex Level - donotcl Long-running Japanese post-punk band who formed in the late 80s. This song is an arrangement masterclass that just keeps finding cool new things to do. And it weirdly reminds me of early Police. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY8C...

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Ashy Sleep

YouTube video by Convex Level - Topic

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of the French musicians at today’s event came up to me asking “What’s this amazing song?” and I was happily able to say “Someone Else’s Clothes by Ultravox.”

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Disgustingly self-indulgent record purchases here. Both re-purchases of albums I already have on CD just to get rid of frustrating gaps in each band’s respective section on my record shelves.

A Bell Is A Cup by Wire and Oranges And Lemons by XTC.

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